Abasetyhini abanoogqirha babo babaxhaphaza ngokwesondo kwaye bababethe bavinjwa ubulungisa yiBhodi yezoNyango yaseCalifornia, njenge Los Angeles Times uphando ityhilwe kule veki, kwaye ezinkundleni ngenxa yomthetho we-1975 onciphisa uxanduva lomthetho koogqirha oko kujoliswe kuko kwi-Fairness for Injured Patients Act ukuba kuvotelwe ngoNovemba.
Eli hlazo likwabhentsisa indlela abaguli abavinjwa ngayo uxanduva ezinkundleni ngenxa yomthetho omalunga neminyaka engama-50 ubudala ochaza umgangatho wobomi kunye nomonakalo wabasindileyo kwizigulana ezonzakaliswe ngoogqirha bazo nge-$250,000, isixa esingazange sonyuswe. Umnqwazi wekhaphukhaphu wenzakalisa ngendlela engafanelekanga abasetyhini, ekunokwenzeka ukuba bonzakele ngokungqongqo ngumthetho. Umnqwazi wobugwenxa awufanelanga ukuba usebenze kuxhatshazo ngokwesondo okanye uhlaselo, nangona kunjalo, ezithathwa njengebhetri kwilizwe laseCalifornia. Enyanisweni, i-cap ikhuphe uxanduva lomthetho kumagqirha abangela ingozi yokuzala ukuba abafazi bajikiswa ngamagqwetha awaziyo ukuba nayiphi na imeko ebandakanya ukulimala kwimeko yonyango iya kukhuselwa njengetyala lokungakhathali kwezonyango.
"Ngokumisela imiqobo kubulungisa ngenxa yokwenzakala kwinzala, imbuyekezo engalunganga yenza ukuba abafazi baseCalifornia bajolise ekwenzeni ukwenzakala kunye nokuhlaselwa kwaye bathintele abaxhaphazi babo ukuba bathathelwe uxanduva," utshilo uCarmen Balber, umlawuli olawulayo weConsumer Watchdog.
Kwenzeka loo nto kuKimberly Turbin waseStockton. U-Kimberly wahlaselwa ngu-OB-GYN wakhe ngexesha lokunikezelwa konyana wakhe. Ugqirha wakhe wangena egumbini kwaye wachaza ukuba uza kwenza i-episiotomy. Ngaphandle kwemvume okanye imfuno yonyango wamsika izihlandlo ezili-12 njengoko wayembongoza ukuba amvumele azale ngokwemvelo.
UKimberly wayengxwelerhekile ngokwasemzimbeni nasemphefumlweni, eshiywe ziintlungu eziqhubekayo kunye ne-PTSD. Nangona kunjalo, wajikiswa ngamagqwetha angama-80 ngenxa yekepusi yokungakhathali kwezonyango. Kuphela xa uKimberly ebeka ividiyo yakhe yokuzalwa kwi-intanethi kwaye wafuna uncedo lwemibutho yabasetyhini apho wakwazi ukufumana igqwetha kwaye wamangalela ngempumelelo ibhetri yezonyango.
“Ndandisandul’ ukuqalisa ukutyhala kwaye ndamcenga ugqirha wam ukuba angandisikeli, kodwa wandisika,” utshilo uKimberly Turbin. Ngaphambi kokuba andinqumle, wandixelela ukuba xa ndingayithandi loo nto ndingavele ndigoduke ndiye kuyenza loo nto. Wandinyhasha kwaye ndandingenamalungelo.”
UKimberly uthi “ikepusi ibambe uncedo. Ibanciphisa ngokwenene abantu abonzakeleyo, abantu abonzakalayo. ”
UKimberly uyinxalenye yeZigulana zoManyano lweFairness yeentsapho ezonzakaliswe kukungakhathali kwezonyango ezibeke uMthetho woBulungisa kwiZigulana ezonzakeleyo ngoNovemba ka-2022 wokuvota eCalifornia. Umlinganiselo uya kuhlaziya i-cap malunga neminyaka engama-50 yokunyuka kwamaxabiso, kwaye uvumele abagwebi okanye iijaji ukuba zenze isigqibo sembuyekezo kumatyala abandakanya ukulimala okubi okanye ukufa.
Umbutho wezoNyango waseCalifornia (CMA), iqela labaphembeleli bakagqirha kudala belichasa uhlengahlengiso, linoxanduva lokuthintela uhlaziyo lweBhodi yezoNyango. Kwiseshini yokugqibela yowiso-mthetho, i-CMA yavuyiswa kukubulawa kohlaziyo olunokuthi lutshintshe ubume beBhodi ukuze yenze ukuba iphendule ngakumbi kwizigulane. Ukuphendula kuphando lweLos Angeles Times, i-CMA ibhengeze ukuvuma kwayo umthetho omtsha ocetywayo wokuthintela oogqirha abaphulukene nelayisenisi yabo yokuxhatshazwa ngokwesondo ukuba bababuyise. Akwanelanga, yatsho iConsumer Watchdog.
"Umbutho wezoNyango waseCalifornia usebenze ukujongela phantsi iBhodi yezoNyango ukusukela oko abenzi bomthetho bavala ukuchacha kwezigulana kumatyala okungakhathali kwezonyango ngo-1975 kwaye baphakamisa iBhodi yezoNyango njengenye indlela yokuphulukana nokuphendula ngokwasemthethweni. Ukususela ekusekweni kwayo, iCMA ithintele iBhodi ekuzaliseni isithuba sokuphendula,” utshilo uCarmen Balber, umlawuli olawulayo weConsumer Watchdog. “Ukuthintela iqaqobana loogqirha abenza izenzo zolwaphulo-mthetho ngokwesondo baze baphulukane nephepha-mvume lokubuyela emsebenzini yinto engenamsebenzi, kodwa akwanelanga. Sibiza i-CMA ukuba yamkele uhlaziyo oluyinyani lweBhodi yezoNyango ukwenza izigulane zikhuseleke, kubandakanywa nezicwangciso zokutshintsha ukulingana kwamandla kwiBhodi ngokunika uninzi lwamalungu oluntu, kwaye kube lula ukuqeqesha oogqirha abayingozi ngokuzisa umthwalo waseCalifornia. ubungqina obuhambisana noko kwamanye amazwe angama-41.”
Funda kwaye ubukele amabali emanyano yezigulana kunye neentsapho ezonzakaliswe kukungakhathali kwezonyango kunye nokuxhasa uMthetho woBulungisa beZigulana ezonzakeleyo. Apha.
Funda ngakumbi malunga noMthetho woBulungisa kwizigulane ezonzakeleyo Apha kwaye Apha.
INTO ONOKUYITHATHA KWELI NQAKU:
- We call on the CMA to embrace true reform of the Medical Board to make patients safer, including plans to change the balance of power at the Board by giving it a majority of public members, and make it easier to discipline dangerous doctors by bringing California’s burden of proof in line with that in 41 other states.
- Women whose doctors sexually abuse and assault them are denied justice both by the Medical Board of California, as a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed this week, and in the courts because of the 1975 law limiting legal accountability for doctors that is the target of the Fairness for Injured Patients Act to be voted on in November.
- In practice, the cap has so gutted legal accountability for physicians who cause reproductive harm that women are turned away by attorneys who know that any case involving harm in a medical setting will be defended as a medical negligence case.
